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Lecture Schedule: First Half Second Half

Additional Course Information  General First Half Second Half

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Studying suggestions

Note added 11 May 1999:  Students had the chance to inspect their copy of the fourth exam and scantron at the end of Spring term.  Fourth exams can also be inspected during the first two weeks of classes in Fall 1999 during Dr. Osenberg's office hours.  Students interested in seeing their first three exams should have done so previously (prior to the end of class).   Copies and keys to all four exams are available via the course web page (see below for Exams 3 and 4; see above "First Half" for Exams 1 and 2).

Scores for Exam 4 and Final Course Grades
Exam 4 and answers (pdf rile requires Acrobat Reader)

Practice Exam 4 (w/ answers from Spring 1997 -- you need Acrobat Reader to view this file: see below)
What to study for Exam 4: 85% will come from lecture and discussion (and comparable material in text); 15% will come exclusively from the text (i.e., material not covered in lecture).  You are responsible for Chapters 47-49 in the text; all lectures from March 30th - April 28th; Discussions from April 9th and 16th.

Calculators:  If you want, you may use a calculator on Exam 4.  However, I do not recommend bringing a calculator.  In most cases, you'll be able to answer questions without any calculations at all.  In some cases, you'll be required to do simple multiplication and addition (on Exam 3, the most complex calculation you needed to do was 5/2=2.5, and .5 x .5 x .5=.125).  I have found that students who use calculators rely upon them as a crutch and try to calculate an answer even in cases when the answer cannot be calculated but instead must be found by clearly thinking about the problem.  As a result, the student gets misdirected by relying on their calculator.   This is your choice, but a calculator will NOT be necessary to successfully complete the exam.

Scores for Exams 1, 2 and 3.
Exam 3 (this is a pdf file: to view and print the exam, you'll need Acrobat Reader, which is available free from Adobe's website).
Answers to Exam 3.

Summer Research Opportunity
 

Week (Starts with Tuesday)	Lecture Topic	Readings in Campbell, and  Other Useful Links
Mar. 2  Outline	Macro-evolution Speciation	Review Chapters 20 and 21  Read 22:436-453  Read 23:454-481  Tree of Life Metazoan Evolution Evolution: Fact and Theory
Mar. 9	SPRING BREAK
Mar. 16  Outline Discussion Overheads	Evolution: Phylogenetics Behavioral Ecology	Read 23 (continued)  Read 50:1172-1206 (use this chapter for background;     rely on lecture for details;)
Mar. 23  Outline Discussion	Behavioral Ecology (continued)	Read 50 (continued)
Mar. 30  Outline (no discussion  this week)	Population Ecology  Thursday (April 1): Midterm III Practice Exam	Read 46:1058-1092  Read 47:1093-1117
Apr. 6  Outline Life Table Discussion	Population Ecology (cont.) Human Population Growth	Read 47 (cont.) Populus Other modelling software ZPG NPG
Apr. 13  Outline Discussion	Community Ecology	Read 48: 1118-1144  Read 49:1145-1171
Apr. 20  Outline	Ecosystem Ecology Human Impacts [No classes on April 22 or 23]	Read 49:(cont.)
REVIEW SESSION: April 22nd, 10:40-12:30, 100 McCarty Hall	FINAL Monday, April 26 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. Location: Carleton Auditorium (both sections meet together)

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